Sarah Brooks

Harvey Walsh receives health data under licence from NHS Digital. NHS Digital has a record of all hospital admissions and outcomes called the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) dataset, and they provide this data to us every month. The data we use is pseudonymised and non-identifiable; this means individuals cannot be identified from the data. These data are only processed for the purposes of understanding and improving outcomes for patients and the provision of healthcare on behalf of the NHS, medical device and pharmaceutical industry. We never give direct access to unprocessed HES data; rather we aggregate data at an organisational level, provide insights and build analytical tools. The data is held securely at a location conforming to both ISO27001 and the NHS Information Governance Toolkit standards and is destroyed appropriately when required